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The U.S. Is Over, Get Used To It
Creative Minority Reporta ^ | October 8, 2014 | Patrick Archbold

Posted on 10/08/2014 7:31:30 AM PDT by NYer

Many people are understandably dismayed by the the Supreme Court's refusal to hear several gay marriage cases effectively codifying gay marriage in several states.

While it is certainly disappointing, it isn't really unexpected.

I hate to break this news to you, especially if you are one of these people who think that this country, a country founded with limited government, separation of powers, and federalism, is still recoverable by normal means, it isn't.

The U.S. as we knew it and understood it is gone and it isn't coming back, at least not by regular constitutional means. Nope.

Federalism, limited government, checks and balances, all gone. We now have a rapidly increasing federal behemoth with unlimited powers granted to itself rapidly centralizing power in the person of the president (I don't say office, but person). All of which is hell bent on running every part of your life including your morality, all aided and abetted by an unelected black-robed oligarchy.

You can elect all the Republicans you want, do you really think they will change anything? Not a chance.

Nope the U.S. is done. And you know what? That may be a good thing. Such government, even one founded on the principles of limited constitutional powers and federalism, can only work for a people for whom Christ is their King. That isn't us.

I don't know where we go from here, but I suspect that it is bad. I continue to believe I have a moral obligation to behave in a lawful way, but I no longer consider myself bound in loyalty to a government that has has moved beyond the powers granted to it. Morality, decency, and legitimate freedom will not be restored to Americans through election, it will take other means. I believe the world will undergo a crisis incomprehensible to most and what will emerge from the other side is a different people. That different people will choose a different government.

Until then, we have chosen tyranny and tyranny is what we will get.


TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: editorial; gop4obama; gopagenda; gopisthednc; romneyagenda; scotus
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To: ecomcon

Such government, even one founded on the principles of limited constitutional powers and federalism, can only work for a people for whom Christ is their King. That isn’t us.


The people are corrupt and depraved, yet are self satisfied. The Judges of Sodom rule.

That pretty much sums it up.


21 posted on 10/08/2014 7:54:02 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: NYer
This is why I am a monarchist. Christ is my King. His Kingship trumps every despot and preening politico that ever walked the face of the earth.

BTW, we lve in a theocracy whether we like it or not. I agree that our problems exist because we have turned our backs on God. It is possible that like Ninevah we could repent and be saved, but it doesn't look that way.

"He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad." - Matthew 12:30

22 posted on 10/08/2014 7:54:54 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: NYer

“I hate to break this news to you, especially if you are one of these people who think that this country, a country founded with limited government, separation of powers, and federalism, is still recoverable by normal means, it isn’t.”

Yep.


23 posted on 10/08/2014 7:56:02 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz

Do you think there was a conspiracy in the Confederate government to kill Jackson?


24 posted on 10/08/2014 7:57:16 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz

I cannot discern whether your FR handle means you are overweight...or underweight.


25 posted on 10/08/2014 7:57:50 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: yorkiemom; OneWingedShark

CWII Ping!


26 posted on 10/08/2014 8:02:27 AM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: Brian Kopp DPM
This post is correct. Maybe B-chan was prescient. Israel in the OT often treated the true prophets of the Lord similarly.

According to Alex, here's what B-Chan posted just three days before his banning, on the Michael Voris "the USA should be a benevolent Catholic dictatorship" thread Catholic Government (my emphasis added):

Maybe now folks will finally realize that "traditional American conservatism" as it has been known is neither traditional nor conservative. It is a farce and a fraud — good old-fashioned Jean Jacques Rousseau liberalism wrapped in a red-white-and-blue bathrobe. Maybe now they will begin to see that the Constitution, the Statue of Liberty, and Wall Street are part of the same monstrous history-spanning project that brought us the French Revolution, the Soviet Union, and two World Wars. Perhaps now they will come to see that real capital-C Conservatism has nothing to do with individual Liberty and everything to do with individual Duty, and that real Conservatism is not and cannot be divorced from the Christian religion and the historic Christian culture of the West prior to the so-called "Enlightenment".

We Catholics need do nothing but watch and pray. The house of cards John Locke and his contemporaries have built is about to come down upon its own foundation of sand. And after the crash comes, those of us who survive can once again take up the task given us by God after the last pagan empire fell: the construction of civilization based not upon Libery, Equality, and Fraternity, but upon Tradition, Family, and Property.

-- B-Chan, posted August 15, 2010, banned August 18, 2010


27 posted on 10/08/2014 8:02:38 AM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: NYer
Until then, we have chosen tyranny and tyranny is what we will get.

This is what happens when America Asks For A King, as Laura Hollis told US way back on Oct 26, 2008.

We want; we got, then we got again.

Now it's BOHICA every day, baby!

28 posted on 10/08/2014 8:03:56 AM PDT by GBA (But if you're dead now, how can you live when you die?)
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To: longfellowsmuse

evil wins when good people do nothing, same can be said for communist and socialist ideals.


That can be true. On the other hand, sometimes evil only THINKS it wins, as when Jesus was crucified.

We are not of this world. This is VERY temporary for all of us. Countries come and go.

Where would the early church have been if it had put its faith in Rome?


29 posted on 10/08/2014 8:04:34 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz
Stonewall wanted to found a true Christian nation...

The way I learned it, in spite of the current textbooks and media ninnies, many if not most of our Nation's founders did too. But religious restrictions were accepted then to keep them from becoming a Roman Catholic-controlled (or Islamic-controlled) new Country.
30 posted on 10/08/2014 8:04:36 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: NYer

I tend to agree. America has become the opposite of everything it once was and once represented. An abject sewer of tyranny and depravity. This is certainly no longer the country I pledged allegiance to, and certainly not a country I would fight and die to preserve. Not a country that has sunk so low and is so degenerate as to equate two homo perverts as the same as a married couple, and is now using the power of the state to crush anyone who doesn’t bow down and submit to this.

But I still have the vigor and single-minded determination to continue to fight evil. Even if that evil is now fully inhabiting and in control of the country I live in.


31 posted on 10/08/2014 8:04:52 AM PDT by greene66
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To: NYer
The U.S. as we knew it and understood it is gone and it isn't coming back, at least not by regular constitutional means

That is for damn sure. It has slided into destruction so far no current means can ever bring it back. And the most destructive force is the American people who most have been playing with their toys that they were, and millions still are, blind. And King Obama, the communists BLACK Muslim traitor has finished the downfall.

32 posted on 10/08/2014 8:04:52 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: NYer

“I hate to break this news to you, especially if you are one of these people who think that this country, a country founded with limited government, separation of powers, and federalism, is still recoverable by normal means, it isn’t.

The U.S. as we knew it and understood it is gone and it isn’t coming back, at least not by regular constitutional means. Nope.”

Well you are right but we will get it back. Sadly its going to take CWII to do it. The GOP will little or nothing to correct the problems we are facing now. It does not mean I won’t go vote but I have no faith in our Congress.


33 posted on 10/08/2014 8:06:26 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: NYer

I’ve been saying this for a while. We’ll not get back to a limited, Constitutional government by elections anymore. We won’t get back to America with OCare, and it ain’t going anywhere. At this point, it’s time to buckle in for one heckuva bumpy ride, I’m afraid.


34 posted on 10/08/2014 8:06:45 AM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: no-to-illegals

“This author types as though the author wishes for chaos.”

I thought he was typing as though it is already here. I agree, it is already here.


35 posted on 10/08/2014 8:07:18 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: NYer

Republics become democracies, and then tyrannies.

Always. With out exception. The simple fact is most people are unable to make decisions. They want a strong man. If you are lucky you get a king. If you are not you get Stalin.

The US was founded by people who wanted to be Free, but then was flooded by people who want to be taken care of. Guess who we have more of.


36 posted on 10/08/2014 8:08:42 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Brian Kopp DPM

Your post reminded me of this. I think it is germane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGk5ioEXlIM


37 posted on 10/08/2014 8:08:42 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Brian Kopp DPM

I remember B-chan.

I had hoped that we were not as close to the tipping point as we are today.


38 posted on 10/08/2014 8:09:35 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: NYer

“The U.S. as we knew it and understood it is gone and it isn’t coming back, at least not by regular constitutional means. Nope”

Oh go f yourself, quitter.


39 posted on 10/08/2014 8:11:42 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: NYer
it isn't coming back, at least not by regular constitutional means

But panem et circenses will suffice.

40 posted on 10/08/2014 8:11:45 AM PDT by windsorknot
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